by PeterVansittart (Editor)
Bringing together Sigmund Freud, Osip Mandelstam, Lloyd George, Bertrand Russell, Isaac Rosenberg, Sigfried Sassoon, Vera Brittain -voices famous and unknown - Peter Vansittart takes us through the course of the Great War, juxtaposing letters from the trenches with music-hall songs, and the words of poets and politicians. Linking the public and the personal, the history with the myth, his rich and unorthodox anthology forms a moving image of everything that went into the War, and culminated in its 'scalding waste of spirit'.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 318
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Pimlico
Published: 05 Nov 1998
ISBN 10: 0712665439
ISBN 13: 9780712665438
Book Overview: 'This stupendous and kaleidoscopic book takes the lid off the Great War of 1914-18 and reveals... the sight, sound and smell of Armageddon. ' London Magazine.